2020 California Code
Water Code - WAT
DIVISION 15 - RECLAMATION DISTRICTS
PART 8 - BONDS AND REFUNDING BONDS
CHAPTER 4 - Alternate Method for Refunding Bonds
ARTICLE 1 - Issuance and Forms
Section 52705.

The refunding bonds may be in substantially the following form:

(Form of Bond)
United States of America
State of California
County of _____
Refunding Bond of
Reclamation District No. ____

Reclamation District No. ____, in the County of ____, in the State of California, a reclamation district duly organized and existing under and pursuant to the laws of said State, is indebted to and promises to pay to the bearer hereof, for value received, the sum of ____ dollars ($____), on the ____ day of ____, 19__, (unless before that date this bond is called for redemption, and payment hereof provided for, in the manner set forth in the refunding plan hereinafter mentioned) with interest thereon at the rate of ____ percent (____%) per year from ____, 19__, to and including the date of maturity of this bond. Said interest shall be payable on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year. Said principal and interest are payable in lawful money of the United States of America at the Office of the Treasurer of the County of ____, State of California, and are payable only on presentation and surrender of the proper interest coupons hereto attached as the same mature.

This refunding bond is one of an authorized issue of refunding bonds of said district in the aggregate principal amount of ____ dollars ($____), known as the ____ Refunding Issue, all of like date and tenor, and all issued under and subject to the provisions of a refunding plan dated ____, to which refunding plan reference is hereby made for the statement of the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the holders of the refunding bonds and of the interest coupons in respect thereto and the terms and conditions upon which the refunding bonds are issued and secured, to all of the provisions of which refunding plan, the bearer or registered owner of this refunding bond, by his acceptance hereof, assents. This refunding bond is issued by authority of the provisions of Division 15, Part 8, Chapter 4, of the Water Code of the State of California, and pursuant to a vote of the landowners of said district at an election duly called, held and canvassed in conformity with the requirements of said chapter, and the bonds of this issue are issued for the purpose of refunding ____ dollars ($____) of the principal amount of the bonds of this district, and outstanding on the ____ day of ____, 19__, and this bond is secured by an assessment or assessments levied on the lands of said district and filed in the Office of the County Treasurer of said County of ____ on the ____ day of ____, 19__.

It is hereby recited, certified and declared that this refunding bond is issued in strict conformity with the Constitution and laws of the State of California, and with proceedings of said reclamation district authorizing the same, and that all acts, conditions and things required to exist, happen and to be performed precedent to and in the issuance of this refunding bond, have existed, happened and been performed in regular and due time, form and manner as required by law, and that this refunding bond together with all other indebtedness and obligations of said reclamation district does not exceed any limit prescribed by the Constitution or Statutes of the State of California.

It is further certified, recited and declared that the indebtedness which this bond is issued to refund, is a valid, subsisting, outstanding and legally binding indebtedness, evidenced by bonds and coupons of said district, and that this refunding bond shall be applied only to the refunding of the indebtedness for which it is issued, and for no other purpose.

This bond is subject to call and redemption on any interest payment date at not exceeding the par value thereof and accrued interest as provided in said refunding plan.

In testimony whereof, the said district by its board of trustees, has caused this bond to be signed by the president of said board and attested by the Auditor of said County of ____ with his seal of office affixed this ____ day of ____, 19__.

(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 336.)